For Individual use Group training Prayer is absolutely indispensable for your church. The early church was powerful because it prayed and today, God moves in praying churches in ways that planning and programs alone can t produce. This book is designed to help your church become more alive, more powerful, and more in love with Jesus Christ as you and your group learn and practice the secrets of effective prayer. Serving in Your Church Prayer Ministry discusses The importance of prayer Organizing for prayer Prioritizing prayer in your church Praying for leaders Praying evangelistically Multiplying pray-ers in your church Praying without ceasing Zondervan Practical Ministry Guides provide you with simple, practical insights for serving in today s churches. Written by experienced pastors and church workers, these easy-to-read, to-the-point booklets address the fundamentals of different ministries as practiced effectively in real life. You ll find biblical insight and wise, field-tested advice you can apply today, as well as discussion questions to help you think through and integrate what you read.

In today's society, public and private morality are often inconsistent and mutually exclusive. More than ever Christians need to become people of honesty and integrity, whole and complete. This studyguide will encourage you to think about what integrity is and how to grow in character from the inside out.

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Enroth, Ronald (Editor) Evangelizing The Cults: How To Share Jesus With Children, Parents, Neighbors, And Friends Who Are Involved in a Cult 1990 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083485. ISBN #0892836717 / 9780892836710. (filed under: Religion ) *

Enroth, Ronald (Editor) Evangelizing The Cults: How To Share Jesus With Children, Parents, Neighbors, And Friends Who Are Involved in a Cult 1990 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083485. ISBN #0892836717 / 9780892836710. (filed under: Religion ) *

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Most people know someone who has joined a cult, and many of them are heartbroken because the cult member happens to be their child, parent, neighbor, or friend. In Evangelizing the Cults, Dr. Ronald Enroth teams up with nine other experts to help you learn about the cults so that you can share the gospel effectively with cult members.

A look at churches that practice authoritarian leadership, manipulation, excessive discipline, and spiritual intimidation warns and informs readers about such organizations, naming names and offering advice on identifying a fringe church.

Epstein, GregGood Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe William Morrow 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034868. ISBN #0061670111 / 9780061670114. (filed under: Religion ) *

Epstein, GregGood Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe William Morrow 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034868. ISBN #0061670111 / 9780061670114. (filed under: Religion ) *

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An inspiring and provocative exploration of an alternative to traditional religion Questions about the role of God and religion in today's world have never been more relevant or felt more powerfully. Many of us are searching for a place where we can find not only facts and scientific reason but also hope and moral courage. For some, answers are found in the divine. For others, including the New Atheists, religion is an "enemy." But in Good Without God , Greg Epstein presents another, more balanced and inclusive response: Humanism. He highlights humanity's potential for goodness and the ways in which Humanists lead lives of purpose and compassion. Humanism can offer the sense of community we want and often need in good times and bad and it teaches us that we can lead good and moral lives without the supernatural, without higher powers . . . without God.

10 sessions Each study in the God's Word for Today series provides an in-depth exploration of a book of the Bible. Each session includes: background information on the book of the Bible, its author, audience, occasion, and purpose; learning experiences that promote exciting and challenging discussions; notes for leaders that answer questions, suggest a learning process, and provide additional information; discussion starters that help participants apply God's Word to their daily lives. The apostle Matthew writes his gospel to proclaim to the world that its promised Savior has come. Pointing to Jesus as the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophesies, Matthew proclaims the universality of Jesus love.

Here is an opportunity to listen in on fascinating conversations with people who found God when they didn't really want to and weren't even looking. Through a series of deeply personal interviews with individuals from different walks of life, the authors conduct a captivating discourse on discovering a "higher power." The interview subjects are not proselytizers, nor are they interested in comparing spiritual states. Their stories are neither tidy nor definitive. What they offer, however, is a remarkable, refreshing, and ultimately satisfying mosaic on the meaning and manifestation of God.

Erre, MikeAstonished: Recapturing The Wonder, Awe, And Mystery Of Life With God 2014 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113076. ISBN #1434705374 / 9781434705372. (filed under: Religion ) *

Erre, MikeAstonished: Recapturing The Wonder, Awe, And Mystery Of Life With God 2014 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113076. ISBN #1434705374 / 9781434705372. (filed under: Religion ) *

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In Astonished, Pastor Mike Erre calls Christians away from simplistic formulas to honest and rugged faith in the mysterious and unpredictable God. God is more about deepening the mystery of faith, not removing it. Jesus should get bigger the longer we walk with him. Life and faith should grow to be more profound and wondrous, not less. In Astonished, you will see how we are far more comfortable with tips, steps and techniques for living, than we are with ruthlessly trusting the mysterious God of the Bible. God asks us to follow him into tension, frustration, and difficulty because he wants our trust, not just our intellectual agreement. He calls us to seek Him even as we live in awe of all that is yet to be known about Him. Astonished is an invitation to question in a culture that wants answers, to wonder in a world with little mystery left, and to believe in what is unseen and find it beautiful.

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Erre, MikeThe Jesus of Suburbia: Have We Tamed the Son of God to Fit Our Lifestyle? Thomas Nelson 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054766. ISBN #084990059X / 9780849900594. (filed under: Religion ) *

Erre, MikeThe Jesus of Suburbia: Have We Tamed the Son of God to Fit Our Lifestyle? Thomas Nelson 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054766. ISBN #084990059X / 9780849900594. (filed under: Religion ) *

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Like the first-century Pharisees, we've reduced Christianity to a set of propositional beliefs. Truth is, we've gotten away from what it really means to be a Christian. In The Jesus of Suburbia , Mike Erre reveals that we've created a Jesus in our own image. In a fresh, startling manner, Erre helps us understand that the real Jesus is calling us to live, act, and think in ways that overturn the status quo. "Expect no sugar-coated sweetness about 'felt needs' and in-church coffee bars from Erre, pastor of teaching at Rock Harbor Church in Costa Mesa, Calif. Expect instead compelling discussion of how the Christian church has lost sight of the revolutionary teaching and love of Jesus. 'Much of the message of American Christianity presents Jesus as the purveyor of the American Dream,' he says. American Christians, he claims, have reduced Jesus to a study of risk management; we want him to be 'predictable and safe.' Erre also uses the adjectives 'insecure, threatened, naive, simplistic, mean and shortsighted' to describe many of today's churches. He lambastes our love of theology instead of Jesus, our contentment with 'simply knowing about him instead of knowing him.' While this protest continues in the vein of other recent books that take a hard look at Jesus and the church Jesus Mean and Wild; Out of Your Comfort Zone , it offers a fresh look at how the American church must begin 'demonstrating the message of Christ,' not merely explaining it. After all, says Erre, 'if you follow Jesus, you follow the most radical man who ever existed.'"--Publishers Weekly

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Erwin Gayle D.The Father Style: A Fresh Look at the Nature of God the Father Yahshua Publishing 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or953778. ISBN #1565992806 / 9781565992801. (filed under: Religion ) *

Erwin Gayle D.The Father Style: A Fresh Look at the Nature of God the Father Yahshua Publishing 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or953778. ISBN #1565992806 / 9781565992801. (filed under: Religion ) *

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Through the lens of Jesus, our attention is focused on the mountain-top revelation to moses of his very nature: Compassionate, Gracious, Slow to Anger, Abounding in Mercy and Faithfulness, Forgiving Wickedness, Rebellion and Sin.

Preaching is in crisis. Why? Because the traditional, conceptual approach no longer works, says Richard L. Eslinger. It fails to capture the interest of listeners and is not sufficiently Scripture-based. The time has come to listen to new voices, new methods. And that is what A New Hearing provides. Eslinger offers as "living options" the work of five preeminent--though quite different--preachers who represent the "cutting edge" of preaching in the 1980s: Charles Rice and the storytelling method; Henry Mitchell and the black narrative method; Eugene Lowry, who bridges the narrative and inductive methods; Fred Craddock and the inductive method; and David Buttrick, who emphasizes the structure and movement of biblical material. Eslinger devotes an entire section to each preacher. He explicates each man's technique, shows how it differs from the traditional "three points and a poem" approach, and presents one sample sermon from each. Eslinger then critiques these "new homileticians," delineating the strengths and weaknesses of their respective methods.

What is the effect of obedience to God on our lives? This is a study of 12 Old Testament men and what God was able to do through their lives as a result of obedience. Abraham, Jacob, Joshua, Gideon, Samuel, David, Solomon, Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, Isiah and Daniel.

Have you been hurt by past disappointment, fear, rejection, abandonment, or failure? When pain from the past lingers in your life and causes emotional scars, you need to understand that God wants you to be fully healed. Healed Without Scars is filled with contemporary and biblical accounts of those who have emerged victorious from life's tests and trials. For years, author David Evans has helped people from all walks of life learn how to live in victory. Let him guide you to a joyful life of wholeness in Christ as you discover that you can be healed without scars

Excerpt: ...glancing eye characterized the first man. We should also remember that the manifestations in the Old Testament, and the incarnation must throw some light upon this subject see p. 20 . b Nor Are the Expressions "Image" and "Likeness" Exhausted When We Say That They Consisted in Man's Dominion Over Nature, and the Creation of God in General. Indeed the supremacy conferred upon man presupposed those spiritual endowments, and was justified by his fitness, through them, to exercise it. c Positively, We Learn from Certain Scriptures in What This Image and Likeness Consisted. Eph. 4:23, 24-"And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness B. V., holiness of truth ." Col. 3:10-"And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him." It is clear from these passages that the image of God consists in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness; moral, not physical likeness. d The Original Man Was Endowed with Intellectual Faculties. He had sufficient intelligence to give names to the animals as they were presented before him Gen. 2:19, 20 . Adam had not only the power of speech, but the power of reasoning and thought in connection with speech. He could attach words to ideas. This is not the picture, as evolution would have us believe, of an infantile savage slowly groping his way towards articulate speech by imitation of the sounds of animals. e The Original Man Possessed Moral and Spiritual Faculties. Consider the moral test in Genesis 3. Adam had power to resist or to yield to moral evil. Sin was a volitional thing. Christ, the second Adam, endured a similar test Matt. 4 . From all this it is evident that man's original state was not one of savagery. Indeed there is abundant evidence to show that man has been degraded from a very much higher stage. Both the Bible and science agree in making man the crowning work of God,...

For the first time, the popular Christian author, Lee Ezell, recounts the dramatic and powerful story of her remarkable reunion with her natural daughter, Julie. An inspiring story of a poignant reunion that will provide hope for those needing the peace of God.